Lifeng Zhou
Assistant Professor at Drexel University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolLifeng Zhou is an Assistant Professor at Drexel University with nine years of experience spanning academic research and industry engineering roles. He holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Virginia Tech and earlier degrees in Automation from top Chinese universities, blending rigorous theoretical training with hands-on systems work. His trajectory includes postdoctoral research at UPenn, a visiting PhD stint at UMD, and brief industry roles in drone engineering and business operations, reflecting a pragmatic, interdisciplinary approach to problems. Lifeng’s work sits at the intersection of control, autonomy, and embedded systems, and he brings both research depth and product-minded engineering to student mentorship and lab-to-market translation. A detail often overlooked: his background in automation and short entrepreneurial drone project suggests a comfort with rapid prototyping and real-world system integration beyond pure theory.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Virginia TechBachelor of Engineering - BE, Automation, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Automation at Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyMaster of Engineering - MEng, Automation, Master of Engineering - MEng, Automation at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (32)
transport9
networkx9
geography9
ros9
public-transport8
spatial8
gis8
osmnx8
geopandas8
urban-planning8
spatial-data8
spatial-analysis8
overpass-api8
autopilot7
mavlink7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
raaslab/Self-triggered-mechanism
Sep 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:30 commits, 16 pushes in 1 year 2 months
lfzhou917/lfzhou917.github.io
May 2019 - Mar 2023
Contributions:108 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
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